Power of Epics PERFORMANCE: PRESENTED BY: COLLABORATION: 9 June 2023

The humour was created by the imaginative craft of the authors and the punctuated timing with which the actors narrated the tales. [...] They also discovered and desilted a ■RITIKA KOCHHAR Poland’s Renaissance Man The exhibition marked the 550th anniversary of Copernicus’ birth, the 510th anniversary of the origin EXHIBITION: Nicolaus Copernicus, of the heliocentric theory, and the 480th anniversary of his death and release of his magnum opus—De Revolutionibus 1473–1543: Life and Work Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the He. [...] of Poland and Archives of the Polish Academy of Science The book theorised that the Sun, rather than the Earth, COLLABORATION: Polish Institute, New Delhi occupied the central position in the motions of the planets—a view that challenged the 1,400-year-old belief 5 to 11 July 2023 that the Earth was the centre of the universe. [...] The spontaneous overflow of music, though not didactic, A major figure in what we know as the Bhakti Movement, touched the hearts of the audience with the soul-stirring Kabir was born to weavers in the holy city of Kashi, voices of the singers, and the simple yet metaphysical Uttar Pradesh. [...] In his lecture, Ashis Nandy attempted to locate the towering Coming to Mandela’s abiding legacy, Nandy cited the political persona of the iconic Nelson Mandela in the global example of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in culture of knowledge and public service, and in the kind of South Africa which remains representative of how to handle regime Mandela created and bequeathed to South Africa.